This volume constitutes the first in-depth, systematic study of varieties of headless relative clauses in fifteen languages from five language families, all Mesoamerican languages spoken in Mexico and Guatemala except for one Chibchan language spoken in Honduras. Headless relative clauses are clauses that often resemble interrogative clauses and/or headed relative clauses in their morpho-syntactic shape, but their meaning brings them close to nominal constructions. For the vast majority of the languages in this volume, ...
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This volume constitutes the first in-depth, systematic study of varieties of headless relative clauses in fifteen languages from five language families, all Mesoamerican languages spoken in Mexico and Guatemala except for one Chibchan language spoken in Honduras. Headless relative clauses are clauses that often resemble interrogative clauses and/or headed relative clauses in their morpho-syntactic shape, but their meaning brings them close to nominal constructions. For the vast majority of the languages in this volume, there is neither descriptive nor documentary material on headless relative clauses; many of the languages are threatened or endangered; all are understudied.
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